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Demonstrators hold posters with portraits of jailed opposition activists Vladimir Akimenkov and Leonid Razvozzhayev and demanding their release, during a protest rally in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Several hundred people rallied in central Moscow Tuesday in support of jailed opposition activists. The rally, which was sanctioned by authorities, went on peacefully amid heavy police cordons. It attracted supporters of both leftist and liberal parties, who urged the government to release more than a dozen of people facing accusations over their involvement in an opposition protest in May that ended in clashes with police. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Demonstrators hold posters with portraits of jailed opposition activists Vladimir Akimenkov and Leonid Razvozzhayev and demanding their release, during a protest rally in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Several hundred people rallied in central Moscow Tuesday in support of jailed opposition activists. The rally, which was sanctioned by authorities, went on peacefully amid heavy police cordons. It attracted supporters of both leftist and liberal parties, who urged the government to release more than a dozen of people facing accusations over their involvement in an opposition protest in May that ended in clashes with police. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)